January 21, 1899

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Features

A Greatly Needed Amendment to the Patent Laws

The Diamond Reef Shoal in New York Harbor

Shall the Government Engage in Commercial Enterprises?

Edible Weeds

By G. E. W.

Repairing the Lightning Rod of St. Peter's at Rome

Diligence Required from the Owners of Trade-Marks

The Beet Sugar Industry in New York State

By S. L. Sheldon

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat

By Robert H. Thurston

Siege Guns at the Washington Arsenal

The Royal Palms of Cuba

Air Ship Experiments

Simplified Apparatus for Spectroscopic Photography

By John Hellyer White

Some Curious Automata

To Inventors - January 21, 1899

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - January 21, 1899

Recommended

New Books, Etc. - January 21, 1899

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions - January 21, 1899

Index of Inventions - January 21, 1899

Business and Personal - January 21, 1899

Notes and Queries - January 21, 1899

Patents - January 21, 1899

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